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    • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I started boycotting Starbucks when I learned they had partnered with Nestle for store-bought products - their Sumatra and Komodo Dragon coffees were pretty good.

      I send an email every year or so to let them know, since boycotts aren’t effective if the group being boycotted doesn’t know why, with predictably apathetic responses.

      Anyway, if you’re a no-Nestle person then Starbucks is on the list…

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        2 months ago

        I started boycotting Starbucks since the first time I tasted their coffee. Espresso isn’t supposed to taste like burning tyres. I don’t understand how they can charge so much for dogshit coffee.

        It’s not impossible to make a chain of coffee houses that serves decent coffee, Espresso House did it in Sweden.

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          2 months ago

          Most people put cream and sugar in their coffee or get one of milk based beverages.

          They are not there for single origin light roasts.

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            2 months ago

            No, society in general just isn’t too particular about their sweet milk drinks. You don’t need to use the most perfectly extracted espresso in a beverage that’s mostly dairy and sugar syrup.

            Edit: typo

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      It’s genuinely some of the worst coffee you can get. They only specialize in drinks that are basically just milkshakes with coffee in them.

      Hersheys + ice + milk + coffee beats any iced mocha they’ve ever made at starbucks.